20 April 1994
20 April 1994
  20 April 1994

 

This sculpture represents the special baskets carried by street vendors in Thailand to sell food or small goods. Although modest and sometimes precarious, the job of a street vendor provides an honest way to earn one's living. The artist is again playing with words: 'ray khay', which means 'street vendor', sounds like the reverse of 'khay lay', which means 'salesman who is a trickster', particularly because in Thai pronunciation the sounds 'r' and 'l' sound almost identical. 'Khay lay' is used here to designate people who pretend that they want to offer a service while actually seeking money.

 
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